FRISSONIC

Gah. I can’t wait for fall and winter. The upstairs at the U of U Graywhale is frickin’ hot. Maybe it’s all the amazing music. No air conditioning can contain the heat!

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Moving on, I’m stoked about the haul this week. Lots of great stuff. I threw in Pretty Girls Make Graves’ The New Romance on the way back to the office. Only got to hear a couple of tracks, but it was like Metric met the Raveonettes. Not at all a bad mix!

Here’s the rest of the grab.

• Prinzhorn Dance School
• Power Solo – Egg
• Hello Blue Roses
• Joker’s Daughter – The Last Laugh
• Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny
• Deborah Bonham – Duchess (John Bonham’s litte sister!)
• Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains – The Big Eyeball in the Sky
• Boss Hog (
• Emelie Autumn – Opheliac (deluxe edition)
• Collide – Like the Hunted (DVD)

I’m stoked to watcht the Collide DVD. KARin can sing … reminds me of a subdued Maria Brink of In this Moment fame. Hello Blue Roses came highly recommended from a buddy of mine, so when I saw it sitting on the shelf, I grabbed it. Power Solo … not sure what to expect. I don’t know if these guys are intentionally trying to look like nerds or what, but I guess we’ll see.

Colonel Claypool is, of course, none other than Les Claypool of Primus fame. He loves to create side projects, doesn’t he? Oysterhead, Sausauge, Flying Frog Brigade … boy’s busy.

Deborah Bonham’s CD should be interesting. Jason Bonham, Joh’s son, plays drums on one of the tracks.

We’ll see how these pan out!

So, again … Friday will have come and gone, and I won’t make it up to my favorite CD shop. Boo hoo for me.

Anyway, here’s what’s played on my iphone so far today, in reverse order (current to latest).

• Metric – Wet Blanket
• Over The Rhine – Jesus in New Orleans
• Scarlett Johannson – Summertime (Sublime cover)
• Animal Collective – Turn into Something
• Nouvelle Vague - O Pamela
• Metallica – Fade to Black
• The Cult – Automatic Blues
• Swans - Telepathy
• Lunatica – World under Ice
• Dido – Slide
• Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johannson – Clean
• Joanna Newsom – Does Not Sufice
• Sigur Ros -  Myrkur
• Hungry Lucy – Open Window (Chandeen mix)
• Belle & Sebastian – Photo Jenny
• Collide – Spaces In Between

Not a bad mix. Old school Metallica mixed with the new version of The Breeders in Metric.

Well, *I* think that Metric sounds like The Breeders.

I skipped ahead to She Wants Revenge’s “Sleep.” Justin Warfield has such a unique voice. Hard to mistake it. He has a lot of earlier projects that I want to check out too.